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244. Asking A Theoretical Physicist About The Physics Of Consciousness | Roger Penrose

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Evolution's Answer to the Problem of Emergent Randomness

Ca: There's an evolutionary answer to the problem of emergent randomness. And the answer is, so a mosquito. Mosquito's good example, any ofic any animal that lays a tremendous number of eggs could conceivably march to maturity. So there is genetic mutation in all and evolution seems to be able to use the admixture of random ness into structure as a means of dealing with the internal determinacy of the future. I certainly wouldn'tnt deny that at all.

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